Seership
What is seeing?
Intuition is reawakened through building intimacy with your own lived experience. There are concepts, words, advice and opinions from the external world, and then there there is your own, unique experiential path. All you need are the signposts.
Seeing is the objective observation of truth and patterns, discernment of timeless energetics/archetypes at play in our personal experience and the ability to detach ourselves from them. ‘Seeing’ is not related to the actual visual sense, rather it is an all encompassing extrasensory perception which blends together feeling and knowing within the body. It is the foundation for relating to the world around us. There is no denying the truth of something we’ve seen, it has a quiet power and certainty that is completely singular, it does not carry the charge of our attachment. We know what is for us, what is authentic, and where we should direct our energy. We move beyond the limitations of the mind, and merge together with truth.
Seeing is also not limited to dreams, meditative states or the spiritual - seeing is grounded in the practical, it is a way of moving through the world and deepening connections with our lived experiences. It is a way of choosing meaning and relationship over coincidence and circumstance. It is spectacular in it’s mundanity, and profound in its simplicity.
Seeing is not fortune telling or future prediction - truth is timeless because time is a construct. Seeing is embracing the mystery through trust, not being comforted by a fixed outcome.
Why is this important?
Truth discernment is foundational for building trust within ourselves. The result is conviction in our choices, energy for our pursuits, a sense of interconnection and playful curiosity in detachment - these are as much practical as they are spiritual, and are all the hallmarks of intuition.
The oldest traditions and guidance are becoming increasingly discarded in favor of reductionist science: the intellectual mind is king, operating completely separate from the instinctual animal of our bodies - feeling is no longer trusted. Seeing is the left brain, the yin/feminine, raw potential, mystery. A balance must be struck between the two, which is conveyed to us in the old stories, songs, rituals, myth, symbols, archetypes which govern universal rights of passage, and the magic of our everyday lives. Once we know them, we can see them, then we can recall our power from them.
Once we open, we feel ourselves as a thread in a larger tapestry, where we are all transmitting the truth to each other through intention and action. What this looks like for me is being receptive to all knowledge and wisdom regardless of its perceived origin: trusting in mystery. It sometimes also presents itself as insight which comes without thinking, without a filter or a reference point, but is delivered with trust and received in perfect synchronicity; this is divine play.
“Wisdom isn’t arrived at through an accumulation of outside knowldge. It is our intrinstic ability to recognise eternal truths without having been taught what to look for… Wisdom is a knower in you. Not something that you know, something that knows you.”
- Toko-pa Turner
Who is this for?
Seership is innate in all of us and simply asks for our awareness and trust to re-emerge. Seership affects how we relate to the world, to one another, to time, to obstacles, to our attachment to purpose, our art, our work, our family, our routines and goals. All benefit from this extrasensory perception, though many in the healing arts will feel particularly drawn as they are natural guides for this time of transition - an age where interconnection is viscerally felt and cherished; we are all born empaths, we are just at different stages of remembering.
The mystic seeks wisdom through personal experience, not accumulation of knowledge. Knowledge can be demonstrated, but only wisdom can be felt.
How do we get there?
To observe the patterns of truth we must first be separate from them. This process is an unspooling, it involves questioning everything, especially those things we hold dear. It involves embracing discomfort and avoidance in all layers, which are the lessons for growth and expansion. Stillness and silence are the cornerstones of this process.
We can not observe a pattern which we are intricately woven into - perspective must be found in releasing ourselves from stories, scripts and inner narrative which keep us from seeing.
We can not sense truth if we are not in right relationship with our body. Our instincts speak to us in feelings and sensations, many of which we have distanced ourselves from over time, just as pain is compartmentalised as a means of survival. Safety, physical threat, creative insight are all signals we can physically, tangibly feel in our tissues; this is the original conversation with our bodies which formed our lived experience before we were separated from nature and the divine.
If the body is not accessible, we enter through the door of intellect. This is not a lesser path, harder path, faster path or otherwise - it is simply different. Meet yourself where you are.
We have major guideposts which serve as our north star, but every journey there will be individual and not linear. In the end, we all come home to the body in the present moment. This is the animistic, shamanic path, which is experiential in nature. We are offered the what (seership) and some aspects of the how (techniques), but the when, why and finer detail are up to us.
